Leading a Scientific Software Project- It's All Personal

Posted by US Research Software Sustainability Institute on August 07, 2019 · 1 min read

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(reposted from Better Scientific Software) I’ve been participating in open source software projects since around 1994; and when asked what I’ve learned, I always say, “It’s all about people.” So while I could be writing about all the technical things that are going on in my scientific software projects, let me instead write about people. Emacs’s CC mode My first involvement with open source was when I was a freshman at the University of Stuttgart, in Germany, in 1994.